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CASE18245: Horary consultation concerning Margery Simpson (PERSON15831)

Question asked by Simpson (PERSON15818) on 18 November 1602 at 09:45

RN Margery Sympson of Lowton 26 y. novemb. 18 hor 9. 45. ant m. 1602. for my counsell for his wife yt hath bene ill this sennet yt hath bene in travell but given over agayne ill this 3 days & this last night specially.

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Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 221, f. 245v (upper left part of page)

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CASE18831: Horary consultation concerning Robinson (PERSON15401)

Question asked by Mrs Mary Robinson [Sandy] [Napier] (PERSON6319) on 20 October 1600 at 18:00

RN Soror Sandy petit an soror sua Robinson quæ valde egrotat lately delivered but ever miscarid in child bead vtru morietr. Octob. 20 die hor 6 p m. 1600.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 16r (upper right part of page)

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CASE17249: Horary consultation concerning Bridget Hartley (PERSON12600)

Question asked by the patient on 15 June 1602 at 11:30

RN Bridget Hartlye of Newporte 25 y. Iune 15 hor. 11. 30 ant m. 1602. |head very ill courses bad|

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 95r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE10829: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Purden (PERSON15089)

Question asked by the patient on 13 June 1600 between 09:00 and 11:20

RN Elisabeth Purden of puddington 36 y. sicke hath had her sicknes to mitch {sic}. faynt & feeble. yt wch cōmeth frō her very blacke flowers watr to muth {sic} thin coloured. paynd head & sydes & hath menses immodices/

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 106v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE15666: Horary consultation concerning Joan Fisher (PERSON11784)

Question asked by the patient on 1 October 1603 at 13:45

GJ Ioane Fisher of Stonystratford 23 y. Octob j. ho 1. 45 p m. 1603

A great payne in her backe

menses obstructi these 2 or 3 yeeres

Thomas Colyns a malsters mayde

Ill many tymes in her stomacke sometymes ready to swound

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 142v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE26618: Horary consultation concerning Lady Mansell (PERSON20255)

Question asked by the patient on 24 January 1606 at 10:30

RN my lady came \Maunsell/ showed me her watr Ian 24 h 10. 30 ant m. 1606. who was at my lady Chaynes howse at Drayton 35 y. a long visage leane & yellowish full of melanch. long sick & casteth every foote mutch reds. &|w|ch trouble her mutch. & cōtinew long also whit but the {sic} weaken not yet have cōtinewed longe wch come 3 days before the red. casteth mutch faynt & feeble mutch wynd costive /Lady Maunsell. 35 y.\

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 22r (upper left part of page)

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CASE16025: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Brightwell (PERSON10015)

Question asked by the patient between 1 January 1604 at 19:00 and 2 January 1604 at 09:30

RN Agnys Brightwell of newport 46 y maried. i6 yeres sinc had a child. never sinc any, a cough had not had her sicknes this yere hed ill stomacke bound cānot abyde the sent of meate no sleepe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 177r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE13026: Horary consultation concerning Dorothy Dennet (PERSON11254)

Question asked by the patient on 30 January 1600 at 09:30

RN Dorothy Dēnet 19 y. of husband Crawly had nevr her flowers was wonderfully peaned her head & stomacke & nowe in the bottome of her belly ever sinc the phisick I gave her god be praysed for it. came agayne for more physick Ian. 30 die h. 9. 30. ant m. 1600 with a greeping maketh her very sick

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 261r (upper right part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?f10-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllness%20%28general%29;f8-date=1600-1609;f9-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWomen%E2%80%99s%20matters, accessed 13 March 2025.